Sentences with phrase «behavioral ecologist»
A behavioral ecologist is a scientist who studies and tries to understand the behaviors of animals in relation to their environment. They explore how animals interact with each other, what they eat, where they live, and how they reproduce. By observing and analyzing their behaviors, behavioral ecologists can gain insights into the ecological relationships and adaptations of different species. Full definition
In September a team led by Jason Buchan, a molecular behavioral ecologist at Duke University, produced genetic evidence that male baboons are caring dads.
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«It's a really cool paper,» says behavioral ecologist David Westneat of the University of Kentucky, Lexington.
That's «a real exceptional feature of Homo sapiens,» notes Kim Hill, a human behavioral ecologist also at ASU who has studied small - scale tribal societies in South America.
This is the result of a cooperation project of behavioral ecologist Eckhard W. Heymann from the German Primate Center (DPZ) with plant geneticists Birgit Ziegenhagen and Ronald Bialozyt from the Philipps - University Marburg.
The most extensive reconstructions of individual eel journeys challenge an assumption that Europe's freshwater eels (Anguilla anguilla) migrate and spawn as a group, says behavioral ecologist David Righton of the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science in Lowestoft, England.
«It shows on a grand scale that the replacement of foraging by farming has a huge impact on who we are and what the world was like,» says human behavioral ecologist Eric Smith of the University of Washington, Seattle.
Our highly visual social interactions are almost certainly the driver of this evolutionary trend, said behavioral ecologist Michael J. Sheehan, a postdoctoral fellow in UC Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology.
This is according to a new study published in The Journal of Mammalogy by behavioral ecologist John Hoogland, Professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science's Appalachian Laboratory.
Not all birds make vocal calls to alert companions, so behavioral ecologist Robert Magrath of the Australian National University in Canberra wondered whether they use flight sounds instead.
«This is a really odd, one - off case,» said primate behavioral ecologist John Mitani, who studies chimpanzees at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor but was not involved with the new study.
Such divisions may also occur by adaptation to new foods, suggests behavioral ecologist Jeffrey Podos of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
So behavioral ecologist Culum Brown and biologist Maria Magat of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, tested 40 parrots from eight different Australian species.
A few years back I was describing my ideas to a well - informed behavioral ecologist in this field, and when he got my core idea, he said, «But that's nihilism.»
But the wildly variable patterns of yellow and black blotches and stripes on the faces and abdomens of paper wasps (Polistes fuscatus) led behavioral ecologist Elizabeth Tibbetts of Cornell University to wonder if wasps use these marks to sort out their unique places in their pecking orders — strict hierarchies where wasps are ordered like rungs on a ladder.
Behavioral ecologist Karen McComb of the University of Sussex in Brighton, U.K., became acquainted with another function for the sound when her cat Pepo began waking her for his early - morning breakfast with an insistent purr.
The premature hatchlings literally «hit the ground running — they hatch and launch into a sprint at the same time,» says behavioral ecologist J. Sean Doody, who is now at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Behavioral ecologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is well - known for her cooperative breeding hypothesis.
Yet for Matabele ants (Megaponera analis) in sub-Saharan Africa — with a mere 1,000 to 2,000 nest mates — treating the wounded can be worth it, says behavioral ecologist Erik Frank at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.
It is not clear why they would leave the energy - saving V position, says behavioral ecologist Martin Wikelski of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell, Germany.
While northern swordtails tend to lack colors visible to humans, behavioral ecologists Molly Cummings and Michael Ryan of the University of Texas, Austin, and Gil Rosenthal of Boston University Marine Program in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, found that the fish have substantial diversity in ultraviolet (UV) markings.
Few researchers have attempted to study personality before and after metamorphosis, says behavioral ecologist Alexander Wilson of the Leibniz - Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries in Berlin.
UC Santa Barbara behavioral ecologist Ambika Kamath and colleague Jonathan Losos of Washington University in Saint Louis eschew the framework of territoriality.
Rather than trying to catch females in the act, a team led by behavioral ecologist Ben Sheldon of the University of Oxford, U.K., let the eggs tell the story.
Predation risk likely does cause some birds to form leks, agrees behavioral ecologist Jacob Höglund of Uppsala University in Sweden, but it is probably only one of many factors involved.
Biologists have made many assumptions about the effects of fragmentation without looking closely at animals» behavior, says behavioral ecologist Steven Lima of Indiana State University in Terre Haute, «so we can scarcely avoid being surprised when we start following animals around to see where they're going and what they're doing.»
says behavioral ecologist Bridget Stutchbury of York University in Toronto; DNA fingerprinting has shown that 20 % of the young in fragments are sired by intruding males.
Behavioral ecologists Rachel Smolker of the University of Vermont, Burlington, and John Pepper of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, took advantage of these conditions in the late 1980s, listening in on the chatter of one three - dolphin alliance over a 4 - year period.
«The «periodical cicada» problem is one that's been kicking around for nearly 350 years at this point,» says behavioral ecologist Walter Koenig at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Behavioral ecologist Daniele Fanelli knows.
The results challenge dogma among behavioral ecologists that «if you're being lazy and stealing, you must not be a very good feeder,» says ecologist Paul Brunkow of Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.
But no such ecological factors turned out to be responsible during the 2 decades that behavioral ecologists Charles Brown and Mary Bomberger Brown of the University of Tulsa have been studying cliff swallows along Nebraska's Platte River.
That study comes from behavioral ecologist Christophe Boesch of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, who spent years observing wild chimpanzees in the Taï National Park in Côte d'Ivoire.
He teamed up with behavioral ecologist Amanda Adams to capture some 30 scorpions and map out their homes.
«It's very intriguing,» says behavioral ecologist Monica Raveret - Richter of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York.
And not only do females prefer long snoods, but, according to Northeast Louisiana University behavioral ecologist Richard Buchholz, males assess the snood lengths of other males before engaging in battle.
With as many as 25 shrimp in a station, however, competition for business is fierce, and University of Queensland behavioral ecologist Justine Becker wondered how the shrimp attracted their customers.
The findings are «the best demonstration yet that such a nonvocal signal functions as an alarm,» says behavioral ecologist William Searcy of the University of Miami in Florida.
«That suggested that the story was not as simple as everybody assumed and volatile pheromones were not responsible,» says behavioral ecologist Jane Hurst, one of the authors of the study.
Behavioral ecologist Bart Kempenaers works most of the year at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, Germany, where the sun sets every night like it's supposed to.
Within a year, behavioral ecologist Jonathan Wright of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology discovered this very behavior in the field.
In addition to primates, birds and bats are the major animal groups that are responsible for seed dispersal,» says behavioral ecologist Heymann.
«This will be an important paper in sexual selection theory,» says behavioral ecologist H. Kern Reeve at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
This is the «most extensive» work on the well - being of captive carnivores, says behavioral ecologist Marc Bekoff of the University of Colorado, Boulder.
To eavesdrop on dolphins in the wild, behavioral ecologist Vincent Janik of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts analyzed recordings from an array of underwater microphones in Scotland's Moray Firth.
«This is a quirky, funny natural history,» says behavioral ecologist Rebeca Rosengaus of Northeastern University in Boston, who was not involved in the study.
Geoff Hill, an avian behavioral ecologist at Auburn University in Alabama noted that only 30 percent of the finches were sick in 1995, down from 60 percent the year before.
The work may help settle a major debate about the underlying reason for personality, says behavioral ecologist Michael Taborsky of the University of Bern, who wasn't involved in the study.
Behavioral ecologist Robert Gibson of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, witnessed this firsthand when golden eagles attacked lekking sage grouse he was researching in California.
However, behavioral ecologist Jeffrey Podos of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, says he is skeptical that both species like the noisy and quiet sites equally.
This is the work of behavioral ecologists and biological anthropologists, and you can read about it in a new book by Peter Gray and Kermyt Anderson.